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Flow-cytometric diagnosis of thymoma using needle biopsy specimens.
Surgery today - 1 Jan 2003
Yokoyama Tomoki, Tanahashi Masayuki, Tateyama Hisashi, Yamakawa Yosuke, Kiriyama Masanobu, Fujii Yoshitaka
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INTRODUCTION: Thymoma is a neoplasm of thymic epithelial cells which is characteristically associated with a large number of non-neoplastic T lymphocytes. These T cells are induced by epithelial cells and show a unique phenotype of CD4(+)8(+) double positive (DP), when studied by flow cytometry....
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